Critic Quotes

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.
It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.
There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.
We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.
We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.
Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
No one likes change but babies in diapers.
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.
I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.
I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.
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